Enable or Disable Search Autocomplete

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Search Autocomplete is enabled by default, refer to Search. To disable or enable it, use alation_conf:

  1. SSH to the Alation instance and enter the Alation shell.

sudo /etc/init.d/alation shell

  1. To disable Search Autocomplete, using alation_conf, set the Search Autocomplete feature flag to False:

alation_conf alation.search.enable_search_autocomplete -s False

  1. Restart the celery-beat component.

alation_supervisor restart celery:celery-beat

  1. To enable the Autocomplete Search, set the flag to True:

alation_conf alation.search.enable_search_autocomplete -s True

  1. Restart the celery-beat component.

alation_supervisor restart celery:celery-beat